Despite the fact that I've been giving Aria slippery elm bark and EITHER egg yolk lecithin OR a third of a raw egg yolk alternated daily (i.e. SEB, EYL, SEB, raw egg yolk, SEB, etc.) for the past 2 weeks, she hacked up a fairly large hairball Sunday morning and then another one this morning.
She is perfectly normal in every other way and is happy to eat right afterwards. She hasn't been regurgitating food at all, just hacking up the hairball plus a little clear liquid. In our defense, it has finally started warming up in CO this past week, and she's been shedding and grooming like crazy. I brush her once a day, and I'm getting a fair bit of fur.
This has been a fairly typical pattern with her over the years to cough up a few hairballs during the worst of the shedding. I was hoping that with her new better diet (mostly raw) and the EYL and SEB, the hairballs would disappear. I wonder if the crappy food I fed her for 6 years permanently affected her motility.
Other than increasing the EYL to every day and brushing her more, does anyone else have any other suggestions for me to try?
This has been a fairly typical pattern with her over the years to cough up a few hairballs during the worst of the shedding. I was hoping that with her new better diet (mostly raw) and the EYL and SEB, the hairballs would disappear. I wonder if the crappy food I fed her for 6 years permanently affected her motility.
Other than increasing the EYL to every day and brushing her more, does anyone else have any other suggestions for me to try?